Olen Gunnlaugson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in leadership and organizational development within the Department of Management at Université Laval, in Quebec City where among other projects, he is co-developing an MBA micro program in Complexity Studies, Consciousness and Leadership with colleagues. Olen brings a multidisciplinary background to leadership studies. His work has been published across peer-reviewed academic journals and presented at numerous international conferences. His main research interests focus on dialogue and collective intelligence approaches to leadership, integral theory, transformative learning processes in groups and teams and contemplative approaches to inquiry.

A Complexity Perspective on Presencing

Abstract

This article outlines preliminary criteria for establishing a complexity perspective of presencing, a process-method of generative conversation that involves sensing, seeing into and apprehending complex emergent ways of knowing and inquiry within collective contexts of learning and inquiry.